Disney’s Sand-Sketching Robot Turns Beaches Into an Artist’s Canvas

If you think elaborate sand castle were the only way one could show their aesthetic visual sense on the beach , Disney Research and ETH Zürich desire to introduce you to theirBeachbot . Slightly larger than a Roomba , the cartoonish robot turtleneck habituate innovative mild balloon - like roulette wheel so that it does n’t leave a track while rolling across a beach , but can deploy a built - in rip as needed to drag elaborate designs in the sand .

Beachbot can be controlled remotely earmark an operator to use it to draw directly on a beach , but it can also be programmed with a pre - loaded pattern or image . In that case , four white pole are placed in the guts to base the size of it of the giant canvas , which the Beachbot then use to keep caterpillar track of its spatial relation — with a high degree of truth — as it autonomously reproduce a design .

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